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Ann Bartow
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Big fan of free speech and academic freedom. Strongly recommend avoiding UNH Franklin Pierce Law until change to less toxic leadership and more positive student treatment. She/her or gender neutral pronouns.

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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 1h
Why It Matters That the Justice Department Ignored the Law About the Epstein Files: verdict.justia.com/2025/12/24/w...
Why It Matters That the Justice Department Ignored the Law About the Epstein Files
Amherst professor Austin Sarat discusses the Department of Justice’s failure to meet the legal deadline set by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, criticizing DOJ’s decision to release only a small fr...
verdict.justia.com

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Beth Simone Noveck @bethnoveck.bsky.social · 2h
#ResearchRadar: Access to the law shapes whether rights exist in practice.

This piece examines how fragmented NLRB data limits workers' power and how NLRB Research uses AI and open-source tools to make labor law more usable.

Read more: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/nlrb-da...
The NLRB Has a Data Problem. One Lawyer Is Using AI to Fix It.
U.S. labor law is shaped by thousands of decisions issued each year by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the courts, yet much of this precedent remains difficult for workers, organizers, a...
rebootdemocracy.ai

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Victor Narro @victornarro1.bsky.social · 2h
A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week, according to family of the victim.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Protester blinded, skull fractured by DHS agent during Santa Ana demonstration, family says
A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week...
www.latimes.com

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 2h
$2,500 full body scan said he was healthy. Then he had a stroke wapo.st/3ZfYSw5

Reality: "there is no documented evidence that total body screening is cost-efficient or effective in prolonging life" & potentially harmful (American College of Radiology)

Sum: evidence-free & exploitive money grab.
A $2,500 full body scan said he was healthy. Then he had a catastrophic stroke.
Prenuvo promotes full body MRI scans to detect hazardous conditions early. But medical associations say they may cause unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security.
wapo.st

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 3h
A few months ago, ICE hired me

I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable

And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"

My latest for Slate
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
slate.com

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Victor Narro @victornarro1.bsky.social · 10h
Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting

At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.

www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...
A new spate of Justice Department officials quit because their section didn't want to probe Renee Good's shooting
At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
www.ms.now

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Kirsten Ostermann @kirstenostermann.bsky.social · 12h
Donald Trump on Monday said in a Truth Social post any country doing business with Iran will face a 25% tariff “on any and all business being done with the United States of America.”
That new tariff on imports from Iran’s trading partners is “effective immediately".

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 13h
Protesters clashed with federal agents for another night outside the Whipple Federal Building, which holds ICE detainees. Agents fired less-lethal munitions and deployed chemical irritants at the crowd.

📷️: Jeff Wheeler

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Elliott Payne @elliottpayne.org · 14h
ICE just indiscriminately stopped a citizen at a bus stop in front of the co-op. If this is how they treat the President of the Minneapolis City Council who is legally observing, just think of what they’re doing to everyone else in our City.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15h
This video is the perfect encapsulation of the illegal, thuggish, unprovoked, violent conduct of ICE. Rep. @benniethompson.bsky.social, I trust that you and the House Homeland Security Committee will have interest in this.

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 17h
Funniest apparently real trademark I have seen in a while.
Ad for a product called sleepy wonders. It's a shirt that goes under dresses that are sleeveless to give them sleeves.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17h
Breaking NYT:

The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.

The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.

That is a war crime called "perfidy."
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 18h
This just shows how absurd the whole "armed conflict" framing is. The men on the boats weren't members of an organized armed force, and therefore the question of "perfidy" is inapposite. The problem is that they were civilians who were murdered.

@justsecurity.org

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 18h
Possibly of interest: SEQUESTERED Podcast: Inside the Jasmine Pace Murder Trial – A Juror’s View share.google/Jga44uvMzNGO...
SEQUESTERED Podcast: Inside the Jasmine Pace Murder Trial – A Juror’s View
SEQUESTERED is a true crime podcast from a juror's perspective of the murder trial for Jasmine Pace. Juror #11 shares her experiences during the Tennesseee v. Jason Chen trial.
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 18h
The “arbitrary and capricious“ administration:
“Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the Interior Department’s suspension order was ‘arbitrary and capricious’ in violation of federal law.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
Judge Strikes Down Trump’s Latest Effort to Stop Offshore Wind
www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h
Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 21h
The mighty Delaware.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 21h
Why do we feel starved for time? www.sciencenews.org/article/star...

"Recent research shows that time poverty depends more on perceived shortages than actual ones."

Studies: people have MORE free time now, but we all FEEL busier.

Key: fragmentation, less "flow" time, online environment...
Why we feel starved for time
Interruptions, to-do lists, lack of autonomy — “time poverty” depends more on perceived shortages of time than actual ones, recent research suggests.
www.sciencenews.org

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21h
As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison corporations making bank off his deportation agenda.

Trump has unleashed billions of dollars worth of funding for these companies while offering them "no-bid" contracts.

Cashing in on cruelty.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 21h
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 22h
Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 22h
We need less research framing the problem facing our country as "polarization" and more research framing the problem as "anti-democratic radicalization".

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22h
"The veteran said he saw volunteering as an ICE observer as another way of serving his country.

'It’s the most American thing to do: not to be scared of people trying to scare you...

This is a pivotal moment we’ll be asked about by our kids, "Where were you?"
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
They say they’re monitoring ICE arrests. Feds say they’re breaking the law.
The fatal shooting of Renée Good last week, as ICE officers and residents faced off on a Minneapolis street here, has brought new attention to ICE monitoring.
www.washingtonpost.com

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 22h
if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”
Breaking News The E.P.A. will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23h
BREAKING: Senator Mark Kelly sues Pete Hegseth, DOD, and others over Hegseth's censure of Kelly and effort to reduce his retirement grade, alleging violations of the First Amendment, due process, Speech & Debate Clause, and federal laws.

Kelly is represented by Arnold & Porter.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MARK KELLY, United States Senator representing the State of Arizona, 120 Constitution Ave NE, Suite 516 Washington, D.C. 20002 Plaintiff, V. PETE HEGSETH, in his official capacity as Secretary of Defense, 1600 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, 1600 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 JOHN PHELAN, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Navy, 1000 Navy Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20350 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY, 1000 Navy Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20350 Defendants. Case No._ COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF 9. If permitted to stand, the Secretary's censure and the grade-determination proceedings that he has directed will inflict immediate and irreparable harm. The censure, the grade-reduction process, and its inevitable outcome impose official punishment for protected speech, chill legislative oversight, and threaten reductions in rank and pay. Each of these actions also signals to retired service members and Members of Congress that criticism of the Executive's use of the armed forces may be met with retaliation through military channels. The Constitution does not leave such injuries to be remedied after the fact. Speech or Debate, First Amendment, separation-of-powers, and due-process protections must be vindicated at the outset, before the Senator is forced to submit to an unconstitutional and legally baseless proceeding. Senator Kelly therefore brings this complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief. Defendants' actions violate the First Amendment, the Speech or Debate Clause, the separation of powers, due process, 10 U.S.C. § 1370, and the Administrative Procedure Act. 11. In particular, Senator Kelly respectfully asks this Court to declare the censure letter, reopening determination, retirement grade determination proceedings, and related actions unlawful and unconstitutional; to vacate those actions; to enjoin their enforcement; and to preserve the status of a coequal Congress and an apolitical military. PRAYER FOR RELIEF For these reasons, Plaintiff respectfully requests an order: a) declaring Defendants' actions unlawful; b) enjoining the enforcement of Defendants' actions; c) vacating and setting aside Defendants' actions under 5 U.S.C. § 706; d) staying the effective date of Defendants' actions under 5 U.S.C. § 705; e) preliminarily and permanently enjoining Defendants, their agents, employees, appointees, successors, and anyone acting in concert or participation with Defendants from 45 Case 1:26-cv-00081 Document 1 Filed 01/12/26 Page 46 of 46 implementing, maintaining, or giving effect to Defendants' actions, including the Secretary of Defense's determinations and threats of further criminal or administrative action; f) awarding Plaintiff reasonable costs and attorney's fees in accordance with law, including but not limited to 28 U.S.C. § 2412; and g) issuing any and all other such relief as the Court deems just and proper.

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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 23h
BREAKING: Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife has made a “transformational” donation to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group. This large gift comes just months after the Trump administration shut down counseling services for queer youth.

My latest for @wired.com:
MacKenzie Scott Donates $45 Million to the Trevor Project
Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife has made a donation to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group that the organization calls “transformational.”
www.wired.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d
once again shoutout to every dipshit who insisted it was hysterical to talk about trump and white supremacy in the same breath www.rawstory.com/trump-267487...
Trump appalls with attack on Civil Rights Act: 'White people very badly treated'
Critics pounced on President Donald Trump Monday after he complained to the New York Times that the Civil Rights Act – the landmark 1964 legislation that outlawed racial discrimination – was “unfair i...
www.rawstory.com

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d
A felon who married an immigrant is telling a lot of y’all that the problems in this country all stem from felons and immigrants.

But keep buying that stupid red hat that’s made in China.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1d
The news outlets that have so far covered this have omitted the description of the GoFundMe from the creator himself: "The stupid cunts wanna make a go fund me for the stupod bitch that got what she deserved i made one for the ice officer that did his job lets get this man some money." /

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1d
Bill Ackman has now confirmed what I first reported yesterday morning, that he donated $10K to the GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, in a tweet.